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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Ben Horowitz

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

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